Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-30
TUESDAY. :. AUGUST 80. 1887.
Contrast

We printed IN our last issue tue pa
friotic letter which Mr.. CoNKIISe re-
Gently wrote to Farragu. Post, Grand
Army OF the Republic, at Evansville,
Ind. Mr.. CoNKING ought now 10 be
Democrat. He ought TO cut loose from
party which is SO sectional and unpa-
triotic that it would not have members
enough in any southern State to justify
it in keeping up an organization If it
were not for the negroes, who, having
no State pride, and being utterly desti-
tute of the right sort of patriotism, vote
with the Republican party because it is
the enemy of the southern people.
But if northern patriot ought not
to belong to the Republican party,
what shall be said of southern man
who encourages these sectionalists to
continue to prosecute their unholy
warfare upon this section? If man
may be known by the company he
keeps, what sort of q man is WILLIAM
MALONE, who supports JOHN SHERMAN
for President of the United States, and
who two years ago invited Gov
ernor FORAKER to come to
this State to address our peo-
pie on political subjects {? Whenever
and wherever FORAKER is heard from
he may be expected to denounce
"rebels" and "the rebellion" He
needs no other or better topic to dwell
upoR in his malignant speeches than
"rebel flags" or "rebel cheers"
or that greatest of "rebelS," JEFF.
DAVIS.
1t was a shameful spectacle which
was presented to the world in Wheeling
last week when Governor FORAKER
abused the hospitality of the people of
that Virginia city. The reader knows
already how Governor FORAKER de-
meaned himself on that occasion. We
add few sentences from the report
made of his speech by the leading
SHERMAN and MALONE organ-leading
organ not in Ohio only but in the
United States. The Cincinnati COM
morcial Gazette says:
He [Foraker] went on saying that
"the rebellion was shot to death, aud
we mean to see that it stays dead. Re
bellion was wrong, and the cause OF
the Union is right, now and forever.
We will keep up these reunions We
will teach these object-lessons of pa
triotism so long as there are handful
of old soldiers left /; and Governor Will
son may as well make up his mind to
accept this with the other results of the
war-a dose perhaps bitter, but whole
some"
Recollect that the very money which
Governor FORAKER and his crowd were
spending was obtained from the people
of West Virginia, and that Governor
WILSON was thus tainted in q city
which was for years the capital of that
State. AS the Washington Post re-
marks, "Governor FORAKER was in
Wheeling as a guest, and, had he not
been blatherskite, would have re-
Trained from referring in his speeches
to any subject likely to annoy or insult
his entertainers"
The Commercial Gazette says that
"the scene was indescribable cheers,
applause, cries Of bloody shirt, rats,
sgo home, and other disrespectful re-
marks were almost constant, and were
repeatedly drowned by applause which
could be heard a mile" That paper
adds that Governor FORAKER spoke an
hour and abruptly quit at IL o'clock,
saving he had to catch train and did
not propose TO be left either now or in
November. We infer that he found a
West Virginia crowd was not to be
humbugged by his twaddle about
"rebels" and rebellion"
And now for the contrast. Read MIR.
CoNKLIsG's patriotic letter again. He
says:
"My earnest sympathy and hope go
10 and 60 with every movement and
idea having for its real purpose to weld
together all sections and classes, and to
make our country throughout all its
borders united, prosperous, and great.
"Could wish or act of mine decide,
every community and neighborhood In
all the land should be crowned with
the fullness of peace and progress as
much at the South as at the East, the
West, or the North
"The brave men who faced each
other In battle can be the best teachers
and the most genuine actors OF this
creed"
Which is the patriot, CoNKLrNa OF
ToEAKER
And yet WILLIAM MALONE brought
FonAxnn to Virginia TO make speech
es---to whom Yes, to whom
Surely not to white people.
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